Brian Jones had this really ethereal atmosphere around him.
— Genesis P-Orridge
I would experiment with porridge - make porridge pancakes, fry porridge - and so friends started calling me 'Porridge.' But I got to feel that I was becoming a character, a work of fiction, in a sense.
As a little boy, I never felt comfortable with being human.
I met William Burroughs in 1971. I got his address through a magazine and went to London to spend time with him.
Writing is a recording that you can cut up and reassemble. Sound is something you can cut up and reassemble. Film, video - you know, the main tools of culture - can all be cut up and reassembled.
Human beings are not capable of creating a thought that truly conceives of this existence. Nobody knows if we are really here, alive, or anything. It's a mystery.
It has always been my belief that creation, the making of 'art' in any medium or combination of mediums, is a holy act.
We must embrace unity, not separation - sharing, go back to small, caring communities. Unity, not separation, is what has to happen.
All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive.
I refer to myself as 'we.'
My father enlisted at the age of 17. He lied about his age because he wanted to ride the fastest motorbikes, which were with the British army.
The punk rockers said, 'Learn three chords and form a band.' And we thought, 'Why learn any chords?' We wanted to make music like Ford made cars on the industrial belt. Industrial music for industrial people.
We were already, in 1981, bemoaning the fact that people were using certain accessorised ideas and images that they connected with us - sort of strange buildings and neo-fascist regimes and the 'dark side' of human culture.
The human body is not the person. Identity is the way the brain operates; it's memories, it's sensory input and output. The mind is the person.
Mick Jagger is 70 and still singing 'Satisfaction' every concert. That would drive me insane.
All the people at university were very aristocratic - except me, because I was on scholarship. And everyone there voluntarily wore suits and ties every day. And this was in the '60s!
Change is not a linear process; it's an all-encompassing process, and it's alive in different ways.
People have become obsessed with the greed of celebrity and self-branding and wanting to be known and recognized and succeed in some way, and they're not prepared to share and help each other.
England was very frustrating in the Seventies for anyone who was trying to wake up. It was visible in punk, in clothes, and in the revival of mods and rockers fighting. All kinds of things were going on that just weren't individual to myself.
If we confound and break up the proposed unfolding the world impresses upon us, we can give ourselves the space to consider what we want to be as a species.
A lot of the conceptualists and the prestige galleries are debasing themselves in presentations which have little else to them but the presentation.
Everything in our world tends to be built on either/ors, and either/ors inevitably make enemies.
There's a moment for everybody when you look at that picture of Jesus in the church and think, 'This doesn't totally make sense.' If God made everything, then who made God? We have no idea.
Every few years, you have to change your strategy. You have to look at how the world is mutating, and mutate. Not in the same way but in parallel.
When Lady Gaga wears a meat dress, it's meant to be controversial, but then it turns into money, and it's all fine.
I have no idea what's going on in the fashion industry.
We don't agree with Caitlyn Jenner deciding she is the spokesperson for trans people.
The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.
I think one of the gorgeous things about TG is that we will go from something amazingly serious and important and significant in terms of the world and life, and then do something ludicrous and absurd.
I think, with TG, in our own ways, we have been committed to the idea of evolution on some level and change on some level - that human behaviour may not be changeable, but one has to try and be optimistic and work towards content that might signify change.
Ian Curtis was a young genius.
Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.
The biggest way to say, philosophically, you'll never be part of a war is to look completely the opposite of anyone in a war.
Change comes from reflection.
'Pagan Day' was Alex Fergusson's idea. It was him that encouraged me to start making music again and start Psychic TV.
I always felt that everything that happened was incredibly exhilarating and massively puzzling at the same time. I can even remember, when I was six or seven, digging a hole beneath a tree. And I would go into this tomb, this cave that I had made, and would lie there, meditating, for hours.
Once you believe things are permanent, you're trapped in a world without doors.
To sell yourself is somewhat debasing, and everyone is selling something.
Everything we do is art, philosophy, mysticism, cultural commentary.
To be an 'artist' is as much a calling from and to a divine service as becoming a physician, nurse, priest, shaman, or healer.
My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.
The good thing about people who are corporate is that they're stupid. So they can be touching something that's precious or radical or special, and they miss the point completely.
That's really the whole point of art - it's to take something commonplace and draw people on a path so that, all of a sudden, they have a new impression of everything around them.
Lady Jaye dressed me in her clothes the first day we met. The love we had was so strong, we wished we could become one. Then we thought, 'Why shouldn't we?'
What's incredible with Trent Reznor is how he took all the alienation and the rejection of traditional rock and found a way to encapsulate it in a form that made the public finally get industrial music.
The status quo is presented as something to aspire to, whereas for us, the status quo was something we wanted to shatter in order to create the space for people to choose for themselves.
Girls together getting dressed up can be really good fun.
Once you have a hit, it just becomes another old song.
Any artist should stay challenged as long as possible.
Lady Jaye and I always thought black eyes were really sexy.